Article 2

For the purposes of this Directive:

1. (a)

   ‘vehicle’: shall mean any vehicle as defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers^f1 and in Article 1 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles^f2;

2. (b)

   ‘registration’: shall mean the administrative authorisation for the entry into service in road traffic of a vehicle, involving the identification of the latter and the issuing to it of a serial number, to be known as the registration number;

3. (c)

   ‘registration certificate’: shall mean the document which certifies that the vehicle is registered in a Member State;

4. (d)

   ‘holder of the registration certificate’: shall mean the person in whose name a vehicle is registeredF1;

5. (e)

   F2‘ suspension ’ : means a limited period of time in which a vehicle is not authorised by a Member State to be used in road traffic following which – provided the reasons for suspension have ceased to apply – it may be authorised to be used again without involving a new process of registration;

6. (f)

   ‘ cancellation of a registration ’ : means the cancellation of a Member State’s authorisation for a vehicle to be used in road traffic.